BUFFALO, N.Y. Michael Raffl says he isn't quite 100 percent and that he is still getting his wind back after a long bout with pneumonia.
On Sunday night, however, he breathed life into the Flyers' playoff hopes.
Playing in his first game since Jan. 20,...

BOSTON -- Just when their slide looked like it was going to continue, the Boston Bruins pulled out a dramatic win over the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday night.
Defenseman Dougie Hamilton, who also had an assist in the game, forced overtime with a goal with 1:...

When/where: 7 p.m., First Niagara Center, Buffalo
TV: Fox Sports Florida; Radio: WQAM-560
Scouting report: The Panthers, who played the Red Wings on Friday, are 1-0-1 on second games of back-to-backs. The Panthers are 2-0 vs. Buffalo, including a 1-...

– The Buffalo Sabres hadn't scored a goal against goalie Roberto Luongo in three-plus games covering nearly 14 months and Panthers forward Tomas Kopecky had gone 36 games without lighting the lamp.
Both streaks came to crashing ends in the...

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Lacrosse equipment maker STX, which expanded earlier this year into hockey, is now selling ice hockey gloves and performance and recreational sticks in U.S. stores, the Baltimore company announced Monday.
"Our goal was to blur the lines between the player and equipment," said Matt Hoppe, STX senior global brand manager, of STX’s efforts over the past three years to create new technologies for hockey equipment.
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The vision the Ducks and their renewed television partner have about hockey in Southern California is grand, but Corey Perry is exceeding anything discussed in the script.
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Scoring champion and MVP Sidney Crosby and goal-scoring champ Alexander Ovechkin have more in common than shiny trophies. Both Crosby’s Pittsburgh Penguins and Ovechkin’s Washington Capitals have a new coach and general manager.
The Penguins, who squandered a 3-1 series lead over the New York Rangers in the second round of the playoffs, hired Mike Johnston for his first NHL head coaching job and appointed former Carolina executive Jim Rutherford their GM.
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Baltimore-based STX said Thursday that it's inked deals with five National Hockey League players as the company best known for lacrosse plans an expansion of its ice-hockey line.
STX launched the line in the spring with sticks. It plans to add gloves and Surgeon and Stallion sticks for beginner- and intermediate-level players in November, and "elite-level" protective gear next spring.
STX said it signed multi-year deals with Charlie Coyle and Jonathon Blum of the Minnesota Wild, David Booth of the...

I don’t know what the Blackhawks are going to do in free agency to fix their blown chance at another Stanley Cup, but because I’m a pleaser, not a teaser, I’m here to help with a list of 10 (mostly) unrestricted free agents:
1. Center Paul Stastny: A fast, talented skater who’s perfect for the moment that coach Joel Quenneville yanks Andrew Shaw off a line with Patrick Kane and Brandon Saad – a moment expected to come before the third shift. Stastny scored 25 goals last...